Building Thinking Skills Level 1 (Color) Workbook - Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Writing, Math, & Science for Grades 2-3 - Softcover

Sandra Parks; Howard Black

 
9781601449948: Building Thinking Skills Level 1 (Color) Workbook - Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Writing, Math, & Science for Grades 2-3
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1601449941 ISBN 13: 9781601449948
Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co., 2022

Synopsis

This engaging 320-page book develops the critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 2-3. The Building Thinking Skills series is the bestselling thinking skills program in the world! The engaging, highly-effective activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete, figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Students also learn important academic vocabulary, concepts, and skills as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by:
- Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics
- Distinguishing similarities and differences
- Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies

These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An an

Figural-Spatial Skills
-Describing shapes
-Figures: compare / describe /copy / enlarge / divide
-Diagrams: overlapping classes / Venn / branching / cycle
-Mental pattern folding / symmetry
-Directionality / Position in space
-Mental rotation / reflection / tumbling / stacking / folding of 2-D objects
-Congruence / area / volume
-Analogies: size / color / orientation / detail
-Visual motor integration and memory
-Use of graphic organizers

Verbal Skills
-Spelling / Vocabulary / Writing: describing things and words
-Following and writing 1-, 2-, and 3-step directions
-Antonyms / synonyms
-Analogies: kind of / part of / used to / association / action
-Deductive / Inductive reasoning
-Parts of a whole
-Map reading
-Writing directions
-Logic: if-then / yes-no / true-false
-Orientation: person / place / time
-Auditory memory
-Language acquisition

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Publisher
The Critical Thinking Co.
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1601449941
ISBN 13 
9781601449948
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320